Sometime yesterday the PlayStation Network became inaccessible for owners of older model PS3s. Those with the updated slim model appear to be in the clear. So what went wrong? According to Sony, the problem’s root cause appears to be a bug in the clock.

If you haven’t fired up your PS3 in the last 24 hours, Sony suggests you keep …

Tomorrow, Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter will hit bookstores, muddling vampirism into the story of our sixteenth president. Grahame-Smith was also responsible for juggernaut Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a delicious zombie infusion of the Jane Austen classic that has spurred a whole line of monster mashing books …

It’s going to be another strong week. We’re getting some long-hyped Ultimate titles as well as even more brand-new Deadpool, if you can believe that. DC gets back into the pulp business and there’s going to be Supergods and zombies attacking robots! Check back tomorrow to see what we’re excited about.

I have no way of fact-checking any of this. And frankly I don’t really care to.

I love this story just the way it is.

Apparently in 1988, Bill Paxton – yes, the actor Bill Paxton – created a rock duo with vocalist-guitarist Andrew Todd Rosenthal. It was called Martini Ranch and it didn’t last long. But they recorded one …

Since the days of antiquity, scaling Mount Olympus has been a metaphor for doing something beyond the abilities of mere mortals. Borne on the back of the Titan Gaia, Kratos–the God of War series’ brutal anti-hero–starts off the upcoming PS3 game by doing just that. Climbing Olympus symbolizes both the accomplishment of achievement …

Slated for an April 14th debut is Geoff Johns and Francis Manapul’s reimagining of The Flash. All we know about the new adventures of Barry Allen is that his “deadliest foe” has kicked the can in Central City and it’s up to Allen to find who done it. DC’s The Source promises to reveal more on the Flash later this week. In the …

Every Monday with “Freeze Frame,” we break down our very favorite sci-fi/fantasy/adventure moments – the scenes that we look forward to, that remind us why we so love this job. As you might guess, such discussions are riddled with spoilers. So consider yourself warned. (See previous Freeze Frame features here.)

Today in Techland: Want to see the year 2010 as told by 1972? Yeah, us neither. But, Geoffrey Hoyle’s 2010: Living in the Future offered an amusing look at a future (our present) full of jumpsuits, “virtual phones” and food tubes. We couldn’t pass it up. Meanwhile on The Techland Show, the boys counted down the …

I was going to title this post The Techland Show: The Sell-out Traffic Whore episode. But wait — isn’t that every episode?

Apparently not. We’ve been instructed to “punch up” the show and give it more “viral” potential by organizing it into a list of the week’s top five topics. There — happy now? Isn’t this what you wanted? You did …

The post-mortem on the Dark Knight’s hit game continues, as members from the Rocksteady development studio and writer Paul Dini talk about crafting Batman: Arkham Asylum. Read on to find out how they approached storytelling, dealt with fan expectations and writing for the Joker.